Hose clamp



Jan. 8 1924. 1,479,988

0. A. GAGE I HOSE CLAMP Filed Aug. 6, 1925 ww/wl o'n wenfi Gage Patented .Ban. 8, 1324.

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OWEN A. GAGE, F MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN.

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Application filed August 6, 1923. Serial Ho. 655,846.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OWEN A. GAGE a citizen of the United States, residing at Muskegon, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hose Clamps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hose clamps, and more particularly for use upon hose used to connect an automobile radiator with the water jacket upon the entglines, for air brake couplings, for heavy re hydrant hose, and like uses, and its obaround the hose, and, Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the body of the clam showing its arrangement for receiving an holding the cable and the straining bolt when clamping it upon a hose.

Similar reference numerals'indicate similar arts throughout the several views.

T e body, 1, of this clamp should be made of some strong, reliable metal, as malleable iron, and must be provided'with offset, 6, in its central opening, 7, for the reception and safe anchoring of the end ofthe cable 3, one end of which must be firmly anchored in the r'etainingofi'set 2, as by spot weldin or like process. The other end of this b0 y is provided with a round opening 7 for the free assage of the bolt 4.

In the app ication of this clamp, after the hose 8 has been passed over the end of the su porting pipe 9, the cable 3 is passed aroun the hose and the end passed through the o ening in the head 4 of the eye bolt 4 and rawn as firmly around the hose as possible, when the end 3 of the cable must be bent backwardly upon itself so the cable cannot possibly slip in the head 4 of the bolt 4, when the bolt and cable must be drawn as snugly as possible into the end of the b dy 1, by means of the nut 5, in the usual manner, which will insure a perfectly firm, reliable and unyielding clamping of the hose upon its supporting pipe. To release the hose for disconnecting it from its supporting pipe it is simply necessary to unscrew the nut 5 and press the bolt 4 backwardly until the cable is passed out-of its bearings in the end of the bod when the end 3 of the cable may. be bent ownwardly,

as indicated by its dotted lines in Fig. 2,

and readily removed from the bolt. It is to be understood, as a matter of course, that the bolt 4 should be entirely withdrawn from the body 1 before the cable can be readily removed from the bolt.

It is to be understood that the object of the extensions, 6, in the central opening in the body 1 is to prevent the posslbility of the bolt or the cable being made to revolve 'in the said opening when screwing or unscrewing the nut 5, although the rigidity of the loop formed around the hose by the cable 3 would, to a great extent, reve-nt thls even 1f the opening were ma e perfectly round.

' The cable 3 should be made of very soft,

pliable metal, preferabl a twisted cable composed of a number 0 very fine strands, for the purposez'fir'st, of rendering it easy to manipulate when passing it around the hose and drawin it into the opening in the body, and,secon to avert the possibility ofeasily'breakingthe cable when drawing it 3 into the body or when bending it to and fro while passing it into, and removing it out of the o ening in the e e bolt, and into and out of the opening in t e body.

- It will be readily understood that with this clamp the free end of the cable 3 may be made long enough so the clamp may be applied to hose of different diameters, as, forv instance,-a single clamp may be utilizeo for clamping a hose anywhere from a half inch up. to three inches.

Having thus fully described my invention,.w hat I claim as new in the art, is g, Y

1. In a hose clamp a metallic body having a bolt hole through it longitudinally, a bearing offset upon said body, a screw threaded eye bolt passed through the hole in the body, a nut for adjusting said bolt longitudinally in the hole, a flexible cable firmly connected at one end with the body, with the other end free to pass around a hose and through the eye in the bolt and be firmly clamped around the hose by the longitudinal adjustment of the bolt.

' r a ee'e eee 2. In eomhimetion with the elemeets eov- .eredl in eleim'l, the hole through the hotly so formed that the eye head of the bolt and the folded pert of the cable as e esseo'i throu h the eye of the bolt may be rewn into t e hole Without the ossibllity of the bolt emi ceble turning'in t e hole as the nut is screwed on or unscrewed.

3. In eomhimetiom with the elements cov eredi :inm claim 1, the opening through the m hwy of the clamp-having extensions tom- 111mg 2:, cross for the free pessege of the eye head u on the bolt and! the folded part of the cab e passed through the eye of the bolt.

2 sliglged at Muskegon Miehigen August 115 oWEN A. GAGE. I 

